People like to say that when you criticize a published work as "feeling like bad fanfic" it's meaningless ("Just say it's bad! Fanfic and profic are the same!") but they are wrong Harry Potter absolutely reads like fanfiction of itself It's a wildly overextended goofy ideahttps://twitter.com/CineastBenRowe/status/1269410264518033408 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
the defining feature of fanfic vs profic is lack of outside input or editors to tell a creator to STOP. And she quickly made so much money that no one dared tell her no
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Replying to @Plutoburns @arthur_affect
The inflection point where she was no longer accepting editors is Order of the Phoenix and it is *super* obvious. Not only do the size of the books balloon from there (and Goblet of Fire was already pushing it) the quality of the prose and dialogue nosedives into the dirt.
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Replying to @PikeBot @Plutoburns
The paragraphs... full... of ellipses... as a crude and shitty way... of showing that Harry Potter's internal monologue... is overwhelmed by emotion...
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One of those telltale features of a writer who doesn't read much and is more influenced by film and TV than books (She imagines this monologue being delivered by an actor who's actually breathing hard or choked up and can't think of any other way to give us this effect in text)
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It's like her addiction to the use of eye-dialect, which becomes absolutely infuriating after a while (Ach, lad, y'can gi' th'impresh'n m'language ain' exac'ly th'Queen's English wi'ou' fillin' th'ole damn page w'apostraphes, cant'cha? I'tak's an'ole hour t'rea')
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